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If you are detained or face a deportation removal hearing, what should you do? Call us. You need to call an immigration lawyer as quickly as you can. You may be told that you can file a voluntary departure notice with the Department of Homeland Security, which means you are volunteering to remove yourself from […]
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If you or someone you know need legal status to stay in this country, the time to act is now. The window of opportunity to legally immigrate to the U.S may be closing soon for many people. Introduced in the Senate last week and endorsed by President Trump, the RAISE Act will severely limit the
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A complaint against immigrants that we often hear is, “They take our jobs.” Donald Trump, for example, said at a Phoenix, Arizona campaign rally in 2015, “I love the Mexican people … I respect Mexico … but the problem we have is that their leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our leaders,
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This election season, we have heard some disturbing ideas regarding the future of immigration policy in our country. Donald Trump has proposed the following on his website: Mexico must pay for the border wall and, until they do, the United States will, among other things: impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees
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At Donnelly and Associates, our highly experienced team is here to help innovators and creators experience the smoothest transition to the United States so that they can focus their energy on building successful businesses. We know just how important immigrant entrepreneurs are to the economy of this country, and we appreciate the fact that they
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When I was in high school, my grandmother told me about a relative of mine – an immigrant – who had written a famous poem during the Civil War. I was intrigued and researched the poem. It was a touching story about a woman who lived in the vicinity of a Mississippi battlefield who couldn’t
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Emigrating is a challenging process for Venezuelans. (Wikimedia) As a native Venezuelan, it breaks my heart to see what has happened to the country of my birth. So many, including my family and friends who are still there, live in fear and want, remembering days when they felt safer and knew security and abundance. Today,
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(continued from CAFTA-DR Part 1: Poverty and Immigration Implications) In the face of mounting pressure from transnational corporations and free trade agreements such as CAFTA-DR, Central Americans who produce, distribute, and consume food are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain just and equitable local food systems. In response, small-scale farmers around the world are calling
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10 years have passed since the passage of the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), an expansion of NAFTA to five Central American nations (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua), and the Dominican Republic. While CAFTA was intended to spur economic growth for all parties by eliminating certain tariffs on exports between CAFTA
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A hot topic in immigration news this week: the skyrocketing number of unaccompanied immigrant children who are making the dangerous trip from their homes in Central America and Mexico to cross the border into the U.S. As noted by Huffington Post writer Marco Cáceres, during the first eight months of fiscal year 2014 (October 2013
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